Social Creature

Nobody ever wants to know the truth about themselves, not really, and she—of course—she should know this more than anyone.

Louise thinks: we cannot be known and loved at the same time.

All of a sudden Louise starts to feel intensely sure that the only reason they’re walking so romantically in the moonlight is because he doesn’t want to fuck her (not in that dress; maybe not ever).

(everybody wants to fuck the crazy ones, that’s the whole point).

She has known, for years, that you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool everybody forever, no matter how good you are at this, no matter how hard you work at it.

You can’t rely on anybody.

It is very simple, Louise knows. There are two kinds of people in the world: the people you can fool into liking you, and the ones clever enough not to fall for it.

Луиза перестает ждать конца света.

Пока однажды вечером он едва не наступает.

Просто на случай того, если однажды Интернет рухнет по причине ядерной катастрофы, войны или чего-то еще, и она никогда больше не сможет взглянуть на фотографию.

И когда через полгода Лавиния умрет, она станет думать именно об этой ночи, о звездах и о море.

Луиза об этом узнает. Она будет рядом.